USA

"Magic Garden" - Philadelphia - USA

WATTS TOWERS - in LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Wikipedia Story
which includes links to lots of other similar projects:

Antoni Gaudí, a Catalan architect with a similar style, particularly La Sagrada Família in Barcelona.
Baldasare Forestiere, another Italian immigrant in California born the same year as Rodia who built the Forestiere Underground Gardens.
Hermit House, a unique residence located in Herzliya, Israel, with intricate mosaics entirely constructed by one man over thirty years.
Bishop Castle, a massive stone castle hand built by Jim Bishop near Rye, Colorado.
Mystery Castle, a house in Phoenix, Arizona, built in the 1930s in a similar style.
Nitt Witt Ridge, a house in Cambria, California, constructed in a similar style.
Rubel Castle, a house in Glendora, California, constructed in a similar style.
Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman who constructed an "ideal palace" out of rocks in his spare time.
Rock Garden, Chandigarh, a rock garden built completely out of thrown-away items. The project was secretly initiated by Nek Chand.
Justo Gallego Martínez, a Spaniard who built his own cathedral.
Edward James, surrealist poet inspired by Rodia. James built Las Pozas in Mexico.
Valerio Ricetti, an Italian immigrant in Australia who built the Hermit's Cave.
Wharton Esherick, an American sculptor who built the Wharton Esherick Studio.
Coral Castle, a stone artwork and residence built in Homestead, Florida.
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, an art space occupying three city lots, was created over the span of fourteen years by mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar.
The Heidelberg Project, a street in Detroit where houses have been turned into an outdoor art environment.
Broken Angel House, a house in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn designed with similar ad hoc construction over 30+ years.

CANADA

Community Walls / Community Voices - Vancouver

Colin, my partner, took these photos for me when he was in Vancouver, Canada, in June 07, for the CANIRON blacksmithing conference.

THE COMMUNITY WALLS / COMMUNITY VOICES project in east Vancouver demonstrates the way that art and community development work together to achieve complementary goals.Over 300 community members collaborated with artists to design, create, and install 28 ceramic mosaics, transforming a 170 m retaining wall from a run-down graffiti canvas into a work of public art that reflects east Vancouver's diverse origins and highlights the area's Aboriginal community. Click HERE to see more information about this wonderful community project.

and here is a link to a post about it from the Mosaic Art Source Blog (thanks Donna)

In the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver is a wonderful contemporary sculpture by

Sally Michener:

"John, Adam, Alice, Helen and Donna"

for more pictures of this sculpture see this SET on Flickr

North America

USA